Joanna Loftus, LPC

Joanna Loftus is an art therapist, psychotherapist, and visual artist who blends creative expression with evidence-based clinical methods to support healing and growth. As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), she combines mindfulness practices, EMDR - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - and a strength-based perspective to help clients navigate stress, anxiety, relationship challenges, trauma and abuse, bipolar disorder, and depression. Her practice emphasizes cultural humility and practical techniques rooted in research while honoring each person’s unique story and creative resources.

Joanna regards the creative process as more than artistic output; she sees it as a pathway to access emotions and memories that may be difficult to name. By integrating therapeutic art techniques with talk-based interventions, she helps clients expand their emotional vocabulary, identify unhelpful patterns, and build new ways of relating to themselves and others. Her approach supports recovery from complex experiences while highlighting clients’ existing strengths and resilience.

Committed to compassionate collaboration, Joanna guides people through life transitions and the ripple effects of trauma with curiosity and practical skills. She invites those ready to explore fresh perspectives to connect and begin a process of meaningful change.

Evidence-Based and Creative Approaches for Online Care

Joanna integrates EMDR and mindfulness with art-based methods to support healing in an online setting. EMDR - eye movement desensitization and reprocessing - helps people process traumatic memories by combining guided attention with structured processing, often easing the intensity of distressing experiences. Mindfulness-based techniques cultivate present-moment awareness and practical coping skills that can reduce rumination and improve emotional regulation. Therapeutic art work offers a nonverbal route to explore feelings and patterns, useful when words alone feel insufficient.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Joanna works with each person to identify goals, preferences, and the interventions that fit best, adjusting methods as progress unfolds. This collaborative model helps tailor sessions to the client’s needs and rhythms.

Online therapy offers flexibility and accessibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, making it easier to schedule consistent care around daily life. These options allow licensed professionals to deliver continuity of support, adapt exercises for remote work, and maintain momentum between sessions, all while meeting clients where they are.